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9:38 AM, Sunday August 23rd 2020
edited at 9:42 AM, Aug 23rd 2020

It looks better because the box is stretched in that direction (so it will foreshorten more because the other side is much farther away) and because of the viewer's perspective.

That being said, it's still a bit weird. Try rotating the page looking at it from another angle. Next time don't draw the lines so parallel if some part of the box is going to have a considerable foreshortening.

EDIT: this last tip only applies when drawing boxes in 3 point perspective, obviously.

edited at 9:42 AM, Aug 23rd 2020
4:40 PM, Sunday August 23rd 2020

It's not a tapered box, because the lines are converging to a vanishing point and touching on it, which means that the lines are parallel. The only thing that happens is that the perspective is pretty extreme, so it means that the box is really big on that direction, as if it were a skycraper or something.

6:37 PM, Sunday August 23rd 2020

The lines still can converge in a tapered box, they just don't do it in a vanishing point but in an actual point in space. They literally cross in that point, instead of creating the illusion of meeting like vanishing parallel lines do. He obviously didn't intend to draw a tapered box. HOWEVER, it's what it looks like.

I'm sure COLANOPY understood what I was talking about, if not, sorry for making it confusing!

11:17 PM, Sunday August 23rd 2020

What I'm saying is that the lines on that set on the box colanopy drew converge in a vanishing point, which means that those 4 lines are parallel, and which means that the box can't be tapered.

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9:46 AM, Monday August 24th 2020

Thank you guys for the help! I tried using the same Ys but this time making all points converge which made everything less distorted.

interesting how the parallel lines distort it so much!

https://imgur.com/a/6VQvPTx

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